McGuinness on a mission

The night Donegal retained the Ulster championship, Jim McGuinness looked out over the Diamond in Donegal town and let his mind wander in whatever direction it wished to go.

Having become the first Donegal manager to retain the Anglo Celt, the celebratory mood reminded him of when, almost a generation beforehand, he was one of the gang bound for Clones on board the buses of the family coaching company, now run by his brother Frank.

“We were the ‘Straw Hat Brigade’,” he recalled.